Gennady Novitsky

Gennady Vasilyevich Novitsky (2 January 1949-) was Prime Minister of Belarus from 2001 to 2003, succeeding Vladimir Yermoshin and preceding Sergei Sidorsky.

Biography
Gennady Novitsky was born in Mogilev, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union on 2 January 1949, and he graduated from the Belarusian Polytechnic Institute in 1971 and from the Academy of Social Sciences in 1988. Novitsky worked as an engineer before joining the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1977, and he held a number of leading positions in the party. In 2001, he became acting Prime Minister, and he served as Prime Minister until 2003, when he was dismissed by President Alexander Lukashenko.